Isserles

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Isserles is the family name of Moses Isserles, a prominent 16th-century Polish rabbi and halakhic authority renowned for his glosses on the Shulchan Aruch.

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Isserles canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish legal scholar
Polish Jew
family name
halakhic authority
rabbi
alsoKnownAs Moshe Isserles
Mosheh Isserles
Rema
Rema of Kraków
areaOfInfluence Ashkenazic communities
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews

Poland
birthDate c. 1530
burialPlace Old Jewish Cemetery in Kraków
centuryOfActivity 16th century
commemoratedBy Rema Synagogue in Kraków
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Poland
deathDate 1572
education Talmudic studies
era post-medieval rabbinic era
familyName Isserles
fieldOfWork Halakha
Jewish philosophy
Talmudic law
genre halakhic responsa
rabbinic commentary
givenName Moses
hasHonorific Rabbi
Rema
influenced Ashkenazi halakhic tradition
later posekim
influencedBy Joseph Karo
languageOfOrigin Hebrew
Yiddish
languageOfWork Aramaic
Hebrew
mainWork Glosses on the Shulchan Aruch
HaMapah
linked to: Mappah
movement Ashkenazi Judaism
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
nativeName משה איסרליש
notableBearer Moses Isserles
notableFor authoritative rulings for Ashkenazi Jews
integrating Ashkenazi customs into the Shulchan Aruch
notableWork Darkhei Moshe
Torat HaOlah
placeOfBirth Kraków
placeOfDeath Kraków
positionHeld head of yeshiva in Kraków
rabbi of Kraków
religion Judaism
spouse Golda (traditional attribution)
linked to: Golda
tradition Ashkenazi halakhic tradition

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Rema of Kraków familyName Isserles
Moses Isserles familyName Isserles
subject linked to: Isserles